Whoa...Record Storm
Oct. 30th, 2012 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatETA: Shots Via Twitter on Sandy in NYC and NJ - yes, it's bad like Katrina. We don't have any papers this morning. (They did, NY1 just didn't get them). Just radio and tv news.
Good news:
*I'm fine, my apartment's fine, my area is fine. Still have power and water. Thank God.
My landline phone is out though - but no surprise there - it's an outside line. (Still have my cell and my parents and robo-calls are the only ones who uses the landline, my cell is fine.) Cable signal went out briefly last night, along with internet, but it was back this morning. Probably a side effect of the power outtages elsewhere last night.
* Sandy has moved on - she's 90 miles west of Philly (although I worry about the midwest, Ohio and Chicago... it's a huge system.) Sustained winds have gone down to 35 mphr, they were 79 mphr last night. Lots of dry weather.
*NY Stock Exchange is fine, not flooded at all. It is still closed. There's power still.
It's generator is fine. Computers are intact and in place. The only problem is people can't get there. Because they've shut down all roads in and out of Manhattan and all mass transit around the area.
* By shutting the system down early - they protected most of the trains and lines.
Bad News: You can't go anywhere. Manhattan is shut off from Long Island and NJ, and Long Island is shut off from everything else.
* 7 deaths. (although it's good news that there isn't more at the moment.)
*You can't really go anwyhere.
There's an across the board shut down of all mass transit, bridges, and tunnels. Everything. Only tunnel open is Lincoln Tunnel. You can't get to and from Manhattan by foot, car, bike, train...or boat (unless you have your own and I doubt you want to use it right now.) Felt sorry for a poor cab driver who lived in Manhattan and was stuck in Queens.
And we don't know when the mass transit will come back. There's severe damage in the subway tunnels in lower manhattan and many of the tunnels were flooded, so was the Path trains and Amtrack. The MTA hasn't seen damage this bad before. The Queens Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnel are flooded. The runways at all three airports were flooded. La Guardia is closed. The other two are open, but no one is going anywhere.
(I'm lucky - my work is out in Jamaica, Queens - I don't have to go to Manhattan for anything. So I should be able to get to work by Thursday at the latest.)
* Record breaking Storm Surge of 13 feet. It flooded lower Manhattan (Tribeca - this is the area below the Brooklyn Bridge) and Battery City Park, Financial District, subway tunnels, streets, and tunnels. Flooded Coney Island, the Rockaways, Howard Beach, and all of the coast line. Rockaway Beach's Board Walk was washed half a mile in land (which NY1 is currently obsessed with showing us). Mangled Street Lights. And they showed one building which had the entire front of it ripped off.
Con Ed shut off the power in Lower Manhattan (231,756 without power) and Southern Brooklyn last night. It's still off and may not come back on until sometime next week. (East 15th Street to Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Redhook). That may be why my cable and internet server was briefly unavailable - didn't go out completely.
*Last night, there appeared to be lightening with the power flickering, but I found out from News that it was actually a Con Ed explosion. The power transformers blew at the Con Ed Plant on 14th Street last night. (It didn't affect me, it affected south Brooklyn and
Lower Manhattan.)
Over half a million people don't have power and won't have power for over a week or more. Also many roads are blocked by trees and water.
* I hate to think what happened out at Fire Island, or the rest of Long Island where my poor co-workers live. I hope they are safe. Will find out on Thursday or Friday. Work's going to be a nightmare for the next three weeks, assuming I can get there.
And Sandy isn't done...Conneticut's Governor was on the news a while ago, declaring a state of emergency for Connetitcut. And Ohio had severe damage as well. The news is reporting that this is the worst storm they've seen.
Good news:
*I'm fine, my apartment's fine, my area is fine. Still have power and water. Thank God.
My landline phone is out though - but no surprise there - it's an outside line. (Still have my cell and my parents and robo-calls are the only ones who uses the landline, my cell is fine.) Cable signal went out briefly last night, along with internet, but it was back this morning. Probably a side effect of the power outtages elsewhere last night.
* Sandy has moved on - she's 90 miles west of Philly (although I worry about the midwest, Ohio and Chicago... it's a huge system.) Sustained winds have gone down to 35 mphr, they were 79 mphr last night. Lots of dry weather.
*NY Stock Exchange is fine, not flooded at all. It is still closed. There's power still.
It's generator is fine. Computers are intact and in place. The only problem is people can't get there. Because they've shut down all roads in and out of Manhattan and all mass transit around the area.
* By shutting the system down early - they protected most of the trains and lines.
Bad News: You can't go anywhere. Manhattan is shut off from Long Island and NJ, and Long Island is shut off from everything else.
* 7 deaths. (although it's good news that there isn't more at the moment.)
*You can't really go anwyhere.
There's an across the board shut down of all mass transit, bridges, and tunnels. Everything. Only tunnel open is Lincoln Tunnel. You can't get to and from Manhattan by foot, car, bike, train...or boat (unless you have your own and I doubt you want to use it right now.) Felt sorry for a poor cab driver who lived in Manhattan and was stuck in Queens.
And we don't know when the mass transit will come back. There's severe damage in the subway tunnels in lower manhattan and many of the tunnels were flooded, so was the Path trains and Amtrack. The MTA hasn't seen damage this bad before. The Queens Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnel are flooded. The runways at all three airports were flooded. La Guardia is closed. The other two are open, but no one is going anywhere.
(I'm lucky - my work is out in Jamaica, Queens - I don't have to go to Manhattan for anything. So I should be able to get to work by Thursday at the latest.)
* Record breaking Storm Surge of 13 feet. It flooded lower Manhattan (Tribeca - this is the area below the Brooklyn Bridge) and Battery City Park, Financial District, subway tunnels, streets, and tunnels. Flooded Coney Island, the Rockaways, Howard Beach, and all of the coast line. Rockaway Beach's Board Walk was washed half a mile in land (which NY1 is currently obsessed with showing us). Mangled Street Lights. And they showed one building which had the entire front of it ripped off.
Con Ed shut off the power in Lower Manhattan (231,756 without power) and Southern Brooklyn last night. It's still off and may not come back on until sometime next week. (East 15th Street to Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Redhook). That may be why my cable and internet server was briefly unavailable - didn't go out completely.
*Last night, there appeared to be lightening with the power flickering, but I found out from News that it was actually a Con Ed explosion. The power transformers blew at the Con Ed Plant on 14th Street last night. (It didn't affect me, it affected south Brooklyn and
Lower Manhattan.)
Over half a million people don't have power and won't have power for over a week or more. Also many roads are blocked by trees and water.
* I hate to think what happened out at Fire Island, or the rest of Long Island where my poor co-workers live. I hope they are safe. Will find out on Thursday or Friday. Work's going to be a nightmare for the next three weeks, assuming I can get there.
And Sandy isn't done...Conneticut's Governor was on the news a while ago, declaring a state of emergency for Connetitcut. And Ohio had severe damage as well. The news is reporting that this is the worst storm they've seen.
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:22 pm (UTC)